"Yes," she murmured in reply.
8
When the dance was over, he took her to her uncle's farm. Marsh, overcome by headache, had gone home before the dance was ended, and Henry felt glad of this. He waited in the porch of the schoolhouse while Sheila put on her coat and wrap, and wondered why his feeling for her was so different from his feeling for Mary Graham, and while he wondered, she came to him, gathering up her skirts.
"Isn't the sky lovely?" she said, glancing up at the stars, as they walked out of the school-yard into the road.
He glanced up too, but did not answer.
"Millions an' millions of them," she said. "You'd wonder the sky 'ud hold them all!"
"Yes," he said.
"Many's a time I wonder about the stars," she went on. "Do you ever wonder about them?"
"Sometimes."
"Do you think there's people in them, the same as there is on the earth?"